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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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upon Ground within the liberty and Precinct thereof
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which the said Church Wardens Overseers and
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Inhabitants have assessed after the Rate of Two
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pounds Eighteen shillings a Year as followeth
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that is to say "The Mayor and Commonalty and
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"Citizens of the City of London Governors of that
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"House of the Poor commonly called Saint Bartholomews
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"Hospital near West Smithfield London of the
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"Foundation of King Henry the Eight for their
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"Elaboratory where Several Houses stood which
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"were used to be charged in the poors Rate
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which rate hath been continued and now
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continues to be rated to the detriment and loss of
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the Charity. And that all the said four Pyles
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of Buildings being finished in One thousand seven
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hundred and Sixty Six the Governors pulled down
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Nineteen Old Houses and Shops (part of the said
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antient Buildings) to make an Aron to the Hospital
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for the benefit of the Patients which is a said
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can occupied space of Grand of about Sixty Six
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Yards by Sixty for which the said Parish Officers
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have assessed and rated the said Governors after the
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rate of forty one pounds five shillings a Year as
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followeth that is to say "The Mayor Commonalty
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